Effects Of Auditory Masking Upon The Speech Of Stutterers

New Viewpoints on Stuttering

“…In most of the cases the result was remarkable. Similar results have been published by Maraist and Hutton [56] and by Williams [80]. Baron and Delurneau [3] put some oil-soaked cotton in the right ear for days, stuttering disappeared but came back when the cotton was removed.…”

Reduced activation of left orbitofrontal cortex precedes blocked vocalization: A magnetoencephalographic study

“…Failure of efference copy processes, which act in part to dampen reafference, have previously been implicated in the eitiology of stuttering (Brown et al, 2005;Maraist & Hutton, 1957). Furthermore, auditory overactivations (Chang et al, 2009;Kell et al, 2009) and disordered suppression of self-stimulation during vocalization (Beal et al, 2010) are both evident in stuttering.…”

Neural Correlates of the Lombard Effect in Primate Auditory Cortex

“…Problems with the auditory cortex and vocal feedback processing have been suggested to underlie stuttering in some patients (Timmons and Boudreau, 1972;Fox et al, 1996). In particular, masking noise has been shown to reduce stuttering (Maraist and Hutton, 1957), possibly due to the blockade of vocal feedback during speech. Corollary discharge mechanisms (Crapse and Sommer, 2008a,b), like those involved in vocalization-induced inhibition of the auditory cortex, are thought to be involved in the auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia as their absence may interfere with the differentiation between internal and external sources of auditory cortex activity (Ford et al, 2001a;van Lutterveld et al, 2011).…”